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As the new school year begins, Portland-based Success Tutoring is helping kids build confidence, critical thinking, and ...

Dr. David Poston is the leader of the Compact Fission Reactor Design Team at Los Alamos National Laboratory, which is spearheading NASA’s Kilopower project to use advanced nuclear fission power ...

Meghan Walbert is Lifehacker's Managing Editor. She has a degree in journalism and has worked at Lifehacker as a writer and editor since 2018, covering parenting, foster care, online child safety, and ...

The benefits of teaching chess to children are manifold. Studies suggest that the cognitive-boosting board game, which has endured around the world for more than 15 centuries, improves a child’s ...

A cell phone is a pretty constant companion for kids at school. It’s a distraction from pesky lectures, a way to talk to friends — and these days, an unstoppable vessel of playing online chess. This ...

When Ted Komada started teaching 14 years ago, he says he didn't know how to manage a classroom and was struggling to connect with students. He noticed a couple of days after school that a group of ...

Chess has been around for 1,500 years but until a couple of summers ago the ancient game was still mostly a mystery to the folks of rural Franklin County, Mississippi. Few had ever played chess before ...

Jeff Bulington was new in town. He'd recently arrived from Memphis on a mission to teach chess to the children of Franklin County, Mississippi, when a man in an SUV spotted him. The man stopped the ...

A team of six public school students from PS 130, The Parkside School in Windsor Terrace, pulled off a brainy upset for the ages this month — taking home first place at the 2026 US Chess National ...